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Traveling from Then to Now, I'm looking for ways to explain how a simple world, appearing complex, is still simple. Trust Yourself. Not the famous, rich, glamorous, lionized or glorified.

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The Texas gerrymandering showdown is about to get even messier Democrats and Republicans are both escalating.

This is an opportunity for all of us, to decide whether we believe in following rules, or doing what is right.
Republicans have been Lying, cheating and stealing for decades.
Rules and laws?

Texas’s gerrymandering fight over its midterms map is getting messier | Vox share.google/HkrQvPoEclKs...

08.08.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not witch doctors, deranged lunatics detached from either science or reality. Like John Birch.

08.08.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

SHE points out that they mock "her looks." She ignores the FACT, that they focus on her, because of her actions. There are millions of women who have "a look," but most are not callouses creatures with power.

08.08.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But their policies, favoring business (corporate and "trusts") have been Republican philosophy and policy for 125 years.
Rick Scott EMBODIES the Republican mantra.

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Hahaha! Kristi, it's the rest of your life.

08.08.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whether we like, or admit the world we are in, we should ALL participate in great or small ways. Capitalism, or socialism are not "bad," but unchecked, unrestrained, unmanaged, uncontrolled - become corrupt. Like overeating, overdrinking, overworking or anything else.
Each of us has power.

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Papa John's, Denny's, various banks, Overstock (Bed, Bath & Beyond, Tesla, decreased my usage or attention to ads for companies that are antithetical to the world I want.
I have divested myself of investments, partially, because their views anticipate their demise, and lack of growth.

08.08.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It has occurred to me, that while I don't make a big deal of it, but I am very intentional about how, and where, and with whom I spend my money.
Over the years, hunger and thirst, has been tempered by corporate stances on environment, DEI, community integration, and I have refused to patronize

08.08.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

leverage it for anything in the future. Like Nazis, they will have to hide and be the underbelly of our future.
Also, ALL records of payment and employment, will be available for any future investigations. Where they were posted, will be cataloged and documented. And AI will be used to track.

08.08.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, they are encouraging, escalating and enabling people's hate. But looking it out from a greater perspective, they are ALSO revealing how difficult it is to recruit Americans to do this "work."
Our job, is to remind everyone who signs up for ICE, how damaging it is for their life. They can't

08.08.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If Republicans money disappeared as much as information, truth and people have disappeared, they would all be homeless.

06.08.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Republican.

06.08.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Republicans don't care. And they Lie.

06.08.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

We should, but we aren't equipped. HOWEVER, We can put nails under their tires, gum in their locks, overcook their food (by a lot), redirect their sewage, open up the fences on their gardens. . . .
every day of life, for a Republican, should be as miserable as the lives they misrepresent.

06.08.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is easier, and more realistic to view everything coming from the mouths of Trump and Republicans as being Lies, and then cherry-picking truthful or logical statements or words.

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Love your energy and the mention of these places just reminds me of my time in Rogers Park. Illinois has a good one!

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Rep. Lawler says he helped secure release of Scarsdale HS grad detained by ICE She went to an immigration hearing Thursday in New York City regarding her visa. As Go was leaving the courthouse, ICE agents detained her. She was later sent to Richwood Correctional Center in Louisi...

Republican Mike Lawler wants credit for helping get the release of ONE
person dubiously detained .
Lying Republicans say she was two years overstaying her visa. Really?

Rep. Lawler says he helped secure release of Scarsdale HS grad detained by ICE share.google/PHR29BVsDxkJ...

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They LIED? OMG!

04.08.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nahhhh, we fired her.

04.08.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it was used by someone else?

04.08.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜It’ll be carnage’: why Sydney Sweeney’s risky political moment may backfire Hollywood star’s β€˜more is best’ attitude to commercial tie-ins is one thing, but politics and celebrity rarely mix well

Sydney Sweeney, like all Republicans, is making money while she can. They are old, tired, and out of touch. Even if they are GenZ.
Would you buy bathwater BECAUSE

β€˜It’ll be carnage’: why Sydney Sweeney’s risky political moment may backfire | Donald Trump | The Guardian share.google/7gztgJBrEKc2...

04.08.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

have lived and worked across many geographical and industries in urban, rural and small town areas. Often Democrats have the heart and intellect, but not the skill to communicate. We can do this.

02.08.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In a Brian Steil (R-WI) town hall, he was told that he β€œmight not be a fit for SE-WI.”
They are right.
For anyone running as a Democrat in any district across the country against Republicans, I am willing to work crafting messages, communications and delivery. It matters. I am not Elon Musk, but I

02.08.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

and Democrats, are like raising a family, being aware and raising all kids, not showing favorites, and letting them go, as they grow. But paying attention, managing issues, facing facts, are NOTHING that Republicans do. They TELL the people of WI what to think. β€œBiden-problems.” Is their answer.

02.08.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

never understood how to communicate and connect the message of the urban centers with the farms and small towns across America. I grew up KNOWING that problems, and benefits of the cities would spread to towns across the places I know, in MI, WI, IL, IN, IA, MN but they had to be managed. Democracy

02.08.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I know SE-WI. I used to bike through there and interviewed Randy Travis at the State Fair in Evansville. Republicans have never been β€œa fit,” for SE-WI, but they hid their actions and intent for decades with incremental ceding of WI values to Ron Johnson corporate interests.
Democrats have

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Yes you do!

02.08.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Off the rails.

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No, we’re a country that thinks we’re too busy to vote. We’re too cool to vote. We don’t follow politics enough to vote. We already live in a Red State or a Blue State. β€œBoth sides are the same.” We’re too dumb to vote. We’re too indecisive to vote.
And we call them β€œdumb bunnies.”

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